Fuel Economy Proposal

Source: www.iht.com --- 101 days ago
A lobbying group for 10 major automakers said Tuesday the U.S. government is underestimating the cost of increasing Fuel Economy standards and wants those standards to go into effect too quickly. ...

Source: www.latimes.com --- 30 days ago
The $25-billion rescue package would provide low-interest loans to automakers for the development of Fuel-efficient cars and mean more jobs in key election battlegrounds. House Democratic leaders are considering a $25-billion rescue package for the auto industry as part of an effort to bolster the sagging U.S. Economy. The aid Proposal, with its clear political implications for key battleground states, is likely to be put on a legislative fast track, possibly clearing Congress in a matter of weeks. ...

Source: www.azcentral.com --- 19 days ago
Leaders of Western states will take their first coordinated step away from a fossil-Fuel Economy Tuesday with a Proposal to limit and eventually reduce man-made greenhouse gases, the airborne pollutants blamed for global warming. ...

Source: www.freep.com --- 73 days ago
Backers of a program that would lend up to $25 billion to automakers and auto parts suppliers said Monday they had garnered 71 U.S. House members to support their search for $3.75 billion in funding over the next couple of months. ...

Source: www.moreover.com --- 101 days ago
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Source: www.mlive.com --- 101 days ago
DETROIT — A lobbying group for 10 major automakers said Tuesday the government is underestimating the cost of increasing Fuel Economy standards and wants those standards to go into effect too quickly. In a 77-page response to a request for... ...

Source: clipmarks.com --- 6 days ago
clipped by: Silkweaver clipper's remarks: This is doable not only in US. It needs vision, leadership and active participation. Clip Source: googleblog.blogspot.com Right now the U.S. has a very real opportunity to transform our Economy from one running on fossil fuels to one largely based on clean energy. The energy team at Google has been crunching the numbers to see how we could greatly reduce fossil Fuel use by 2030. Our analysis , led by Jeffery Greenblatt, suggests a potential path to weaning the U.S. off of coal and oil for electricity generation by 2030 (with some remaining use of natural gas as well as nuclear), and cutting oil use for cars by 40%. Our goal in presenting this first iteration of the Clean Energy 2030 Proposal is to stimulate debate and we invite you to take a look and comment -- or offer an alternative approach if you disagree. Over 22 years this plan could generate billions of dollars in savings and help create millions of green jobs. (1) Reduce demand by doing more with less (2) Develop renewable energy that is cheaper than coal (RE<C) (3) Electrify transportation and re-invent our electric grid Tags: energy , clean energy , google ...

Source: www.kansas.com --- 33 days ago
As voters consider whether to pass the $370 million bond Proposal for Wichita schools, supporters hope a compelling argument for their needs will overcome the challenges of a weakened Economy. For Wichita's bond opponents, the Economy is one of the main reasons for voters to reject the bond issue. Wichita isn't the only school system asking residents to raise taxes amid high Fuel prices and rising unemployment. Districts nationwide are trying different tactics, from scaling back bond plans to launching door-to-door campaigns, to persuade voters to pass bond issues. Local and national experts say that no matter how big a role the Economy might play, the campaigns that lay out a clear case for community investment and provide details on how the proposals will affect each voter have a fighting chance. "A good case can cut through all the noise," said Bart Hildreth, a Kansas Regents distinguished professor of public finance at Wichita State University. "A bad case will get caught in the noise." ...

Source: www.kansas.com --- 14 days ago
Oil prices pulled back Friday as political rancor threw a U.S. financial bailout Proposal into doubt, deepening investor fears of a protracted and painful economic downturn that would further erode U.S. energy demand. Crude's fall erased most of the previous day's climb, though prices have largely been in a holding pattern as oil traders await a resolution on the stalled the $700 billion rescue package. Negotiations were set to resume Friday to revive the White House-backed initiative, a day after talks broke down in heated disagreement over the scope and cost of the unprecedented government intervention. The measure would remove billions of dollars in bad mortgages and other risky assets from banks' balance sheets in a bid to calm frenetic financial markets and soothe a jittery public. Democrats blamed their Republican colleagues for the stalemate. Some conservative GOP lawmakers have denounced the plan as an unnecessary federal intrusion into the private sector and proposed a dramatically different scheme under which financial firms with bad assets would pay the Treasury to insure them, rather than sell them outright to the government. The prospect of a deal being scuttled or delayed rattled investors who were counting on the capital infusion to steady the teetering financial system. Any further softening in the Economy could lead to widespread layoffs, leading Americans to drive less and eating into already flagging Fuel use in ...

Source: autonet.ca --- 100 days ago
DETROIT - A lobbying group for 10 major automakers said Tuesday the U.S. government is underestimating the cost of increasing Fuel Economy standards and wants those standards to go into effect too quickly. () ...

Source: www.ncpa.org --- 30 days ago
How do Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Barack Obama (D-Ill.) differ on energy and the environment?  The National Journal compared and contrasted the two presidential candidates.  Below is a summary of Obama's positions on energy and the environment. Climate change: Obama backs ambitious legislation to cut U.S. global-warming pollution 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050. Under his cap-and-trade Proposal, the federal government would auction greenhouse-gas emission "credits" to companies that want to continue to pollute. Money from the auction would be used to develop clean-energy technologies, increase efficiency and underwrite the labor costs of transitioning to new technologies. Nuclear power: Obama wants to keep the nuclear power option open but says that the United States should not build more reactors until the industry finds a safe way to dispose of commercial nuclear waste. He opposes dumping radioactive wastes at Nevada's Yucca Mountain. Oil: Obama reversed his anti-drilling position to support oil exploration along the southeastern coast and Florida shores. He favors proposals to require oil companies to use existing drilling leases, and calls for selling 70 million barrels of oil stockpiled in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. He would impose tougher controls on oil speculation, end tax breaks for the oil and gas industry, impose a "windfall profits" tax on multinational oil companies and enact tougher Fuel-Economy stand ...

Source: www.wicz.com --- 21 days ago
As the nation's Economy continues to falter, Broome County residents are facing another tax hike. And the county executive said it has a lot to do with the cost of something everyone is complaining about. Fllowing Binghamton's recently-proposed 17 percent property tax increase, there is another tax hike facing residents of Broome County. In her 2009 budget address Thursday, County Executive Barbara Fiala called for a property tax hike of 2.77 percent. "This means an additional 36 dollars a year to the average homeowner, and represents approximately 350 million dollars in approprations for Broome County next fiscal year," said Fiala. Fiala said one of the main reasons for the proposed tax increase is the sharp increase in the county's Fuel costs, --adding a million dollars a year to the budget for running B.C. 's public tansporation and construction equipment. "In order to reduce the impact of transit deficiet on property taxes, and in response to increased ridership, is a Proposal to increase transit fare," said Fiala. Fiala wants to add a quarter to the current dollar fare for fixed routes. But despite the increased costs, fiala said the county has still been able to put aside 1.25 million for a rainy day fund. "This type of fund will save our taxpayers the type of burdern of rollar coaster property tax increase." And, she notes the county is retaining its "A" bond rating by Standard and Poor's. "This rating positively affects th ...

Source: www.indiaprwire.com --- 35 days ago
The auto industry's recent Proposal of voluntary Fuel Economy labeling will not work, the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) said here Friday, a day after the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) announced the measure. ...

Source: www.softgreenglow.com --- 24 days ago
The latest attempt by Democrats to use your tax dollars to buy votes in the 2008 election Gas Stamps As the U.S. Economy teeters on the brink of recession, Democratic leaders are revisiting an idea born of the Great Depression: gas stamps to help Americans cope with high Fuel prices. The Proposal to subsidize Fuel costs for lower-income [...] ...

Source: www.fwicki.com --- 33 days ago
New Delhi, Sept 5: Centre for Science and Environment today said the auto industry's recent Proposal of voluntary Fuel Economy labelling ''will not work'' and asked for mandatory and official Fuel Economy ... ...

Source: press.leasetrader.com --- 24 days ago
Lawmakers talk strategy on auto loans Detroit 3 step up efforts for $25 billion WASHINGTON -- Michigan lawmakers will meet with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., today to map plans for votes on funding $25 billion in loans for the auto industry, while Detroit automakers step up their lobbying efforts. The turmoil in financial markets only served to emphasize the bid by Detroit automakers and parts suppliers for some aid toward retooling factories. The $25 billion in loans was approved, but not funded, in last year's energy law as part of a compromise to raise Fuel-Economy standards to 35 m.p.g. by 2020. As the Free Press reported Saturday, the Congressional Budget Office said it now estimated that the government's cost of last year's $25-billion program would be $7.5 billion, double the previous estimate. CBO Director Peter Orszag said the new estimate reflects the worsening credit markets facing automakers. The estimate will change depending on what other alterations automakers want to make to the program. UAW Legislative Director Alan Reuther said the CBO's figures were too high, and underestimated how much of the loans would go toward suppliers. The cost may not matter if the Proposal passes outside the regular budget rules, as part of either a second economic stimulus or the resolution keeping the government open through the elections. That's the bill automakers and many Michigan Republicans favor, because it's the only legisl ...

Source: press.leasetrader.com --- 28 days ago
House Democrats consider aid plan for auto industry The $25-billion rescue package would provide low-interest loans to automakers for the development of Fuel-efficient cars and mean more jobs in key election battlegrounds. September 10, 2008 WASHINGTON -- House Democratic leaders are considering a $25-billion rescue package for the auto industry as part of an effort to bolster the sagging U.S. Economy. The aid Proposal, with its clear political implications for key battleground states, is likely to be put on a legislative fast track, possibly clearing Congress in a matter of weeks. "This is very, very important. It's an important industry in our country," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) said. "It's about jobs. Jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs." Coming just days after the Treasury stepped in to bolster housing and financial markets with a takeover of mortgage titans Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the Democrats' Proposal reflects a new readiness in Washington to intervene in economic trouble spots. It also is a sign of the intensifying effort by presidential candidates in both parties to woo voters in the battered but politically pivotal states that are home to the auto industry -- especially Michigan and Ohio. Democratic leaders said they had not yet decided whether to include the aid plan -- which would come in the form of low-cost government loans focused on helping Detroit develop more Fuel-efficient vehicles -- in an energy bill or ...

Source: www.bostonblogs.com --- 13 days ago
Want an idea of what might happen if Congress can't get its act together on a fiscal bailout bill that restores faith in the Economy without rewarding those who caused the mess and without punishing those who are its victims? The early outlines are there in the jockeying between those who rightfully believe the Massachusetts shouldn't stick the burden of the Big Dig on a group that doesn't reap the majority of its benefits versus those who don't want the state to heap the pain on those who drive the state's economic engines. And looming behind it all are plummeting tax revenues, increased short-term borrowing to pay the bills -- and a Proposal to chop another $12 billion out of the state's coffers. Can you say Perfect Storm? The chaos caused by an unregulated Wall Street is hitting our pockets in two ways -- through shrinking retirement accounts and rising expenses. Those expenses include the basics, including food and Fuel (and just wait until it gets cold!) It also includes what comes out of our paychecks to pay the tabs run up by the state and federal government. Massachusetts is unlucky enough to have two problems caused by a lack of adult supervision: the other being the Big Dig, the debt shifting to the Turnpike Authority and the MBTA and the refusal to deal with those issues in better times by raising the gasoline tax. By not biting the bullet then, we are now looking at obscenely higher tolls on one portion of the highway syst ...